17/06/2026
_
Planning Granted_
Michael Street, Limerick City_
We are pleased to announce that planning permission has been granted for our mixed-use residential development at Michael Street, Limerick City.
The site sits adjacent to Project Opera, the most significant piece of urban regeneration this city has undertaken in a generation, and with that comes a responsibility to contribute meaningfully to the emerging character of Limerick's city centre. Twenty-two apartments, ground-floor commercial space, and a green roof, contained within a seven-storey building on a compact 0.06 hectare plot. The constraints of the site were not obstacles but parameters that shaped the architecture from the outset.
Brick, glass, and local limestone were selected for their honesty, materials that age well, that belong to this place, and that speak to the permanence urban housing deserves. The building neither competes with its context nor disappears into it. It simply tries to be appropriate to its place and time.
Architecture works cumulatively. Each well-considered intervention contributes to the broader project of making cities more liveable, more sustainable, and more humane. That is the ambition that drives this practice.
Our thanks to the project team, Moloney Fox Consulting (M&E), DRA Consulting Engineers (C&S), MKO (Planning & Ecology), and (Archaeology), and to Limerick City and County Council for their constructive engagement throughout.
